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The weekly messenger., 1887-09-17

COURAGE that grows from constitution
cften forsakes the man when he has
occasion for it: courage which arises
from a sense Of duty acts i'll q uniform
manner.
The weekly messenger., 1887-09-17

Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt writes taat al
the American missions in Burmah have in
corporated total abstinence in their work.
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Earthqualse shocls-Licn,.H Houses.

1t is rare that one finds any lively read
ing in e Government report, but one that
has been issued from the Treasury building
lately proves ia slight degree an excep-
tiOn 10 the rule. This is the annual report
of the Lighthouse Board for the last year,
and appendix three Of the volume includes
collection of the personal experiences
and observations of the light house keep
ers all along the Central Atlantic coast at
the time of the earthquake shock which so
nearly ruined Charleston. The most anus
ing of these comes from the keeper of Alb
secon light a brick tower 159 feet high, on
the shore at Atlantic City, n. ]. The prin-
cipal keeper was on the gallery outside of
the watch-room of the tower at the time of
the shock The flame of the lamp fell two
inches and went up again within few sec
onds. After noting these and other vbra-
tons he went down stairs and telephoned
10 an assistant TO know if he had felt any
thing of the.sort. The assistant had not,
and went so far as to urge the principal
keeper not to make any note of his obser-
vation, as his sanity would be doubted if
the observations were discovered by any of
his superiors. The principal keeper refused
to yield, and when the newspapers came
next day he was gratitied to find he had
been in his right mind. A South Carolina
lighthouse keeper describes one shock as
sounding like a shot from rifed cannon,
and it passed with the same sort of noise
that cannon ball would have in passing
through the air. He says 1t was calm,
without wind until little before the shake,
then came up light breeze which was fol-
lowed by this strange rumbling noise like
that of prairie fire, and everything was
set ajar. The keeper at Hunting Island
Light-station, at the entrance to st. Helena
Sound, says the tower shook so violently
that two assistant keepers could not stand
up without holding on to the railing The
keeper in the tower, 134 feet high, at Tybee
Island, in the Savannah river, says the
shock moved the lens, which weigh about
ton. several inches to the northeast
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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No lis. for q Cradle

| live in New Jersey and go to New York
every day TO attend 10 business. Some time
ago | was requested to purchase a cradle
for our baby. Ought baby to have a era
die? This question suggested itself forci-
bly, TO my mind, and the answer came in
the form of two more questions What
did babies do before cradles were invented?
What is the use of cradle, anyway
concluded that cradles were introduced for
style, and in realty were instrumental in
making slaves of those who rocked them.
Thus convinced, / went and bought good
crib and sentit home. One of my relations
was horritied at what | had done and
feared that the poor child would suf-
fer. My wife took a sensible view of the
situation, and resolved to try the expert
ment of putting baby to sleep in a crib.
The result was that it went to sleep with
out rocking, and continues to do so up to
the present writing. We also set our faces
against the tossing system so much in
vogue. When it is time for bed baby is
put into the crib, and nine times out of ten
it goes to sleep sweetly almost Immediately.
The baby is now 16 months old, and has
never been sick day since its birth. When
it falls upon the floor no notice is taken
and it gets up without help. When it cries
without any real cause it is let alone and
soon gets over the trouble. / am conginced
that this is the true way TO train child in
infancy. Coddling and fussiDg are injuri
ous in many respects and prevents chill
dren from being healthy, happy natural
little animals.-Cor. Herald Of Health.
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God Bless the old-Fashioned Girl.

Bishop Cosgrove of Davenport Iowa, de-
livered a notable sermon in that citv last
Sunday on the immoral tendencies of the
times through the breaking down of safe
guards which once protected girls and
young women. AS a model for the rising
generation the Bishop pictured the old
fashioned girl OF thirty years ago in the
following words She was d little girl un-
til she was Is years old, and she helped
her mother in her household duties. She
had her hours of play and enjoyed herself
to the fullest extent. She never said to
her mother Il can't don't want to- for
obedience was to her cherished virtue.
She arose in the morning when called and
we do not suppose she had her hair done
up in papers and crimping-pins, or banged
over her forehead. She did not grow uto
a young lady and talk about her beau be-
fore she was in her teens, and she did not
read dime novels, nor was she fancying a
hero in every plow-boy she met. The old
fashioned girl was modest in her Gemeanor
and she never talked slaDg nor used by
words. She did not laugh at old people
nor make fun of cripples. She had respect
for cripples. She had respect for her eld-
ers, and was not above listening To words
of counsel from those oil Ter than herself.
She did not know as much as her mother,
nor did she think that her Judgment was as
good as that of her grandmother. She did
not go to parties by the time that she was
10 years old, and stay after midnight dane
ing with any chance young man who hap
pened to be present. She went to bed in
season, and doubtless said her prayers, aud
slept the sleep of innocence, rose up in The
morning happy and capable of giving hap
piness. 4And now, if there be an old fash
ioned girl in the world to-day may heaven
bless and keep her and raise up others ike
her. .'-Ondhd Bee.
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The Russian Soldier.

He is, under ordinary circumstances, a
soft-hearted good-natured fellow, but there
are savage instincts in his semi-barbarous
nature which render him capable of al
most any brutality if he is once thoroughly
excited. The awful atrocities committed
during the late prosecutions of the Jews
are still fresh in. our minds, and bear wit
ness to the savagery of the Russian peas
ant, and the treatment experienced by the
Turcomans, both after the capture of Kh,va
and the fall of Geek Tepe, show that, at all
events in Asia, the authorities even encour-
age the worst passions of the soldier. Per-
haps Skobeleff's greatest quality as sue
ceSSful General was his thorough apprecia-
ton of the peculiarities of the men he
commanded. He had q wonderful hold on
their sympathies, and be enjoyed a popu-
larity with the rank and file such as no
other Russian General has ever acquired.
1t was Skobeleff who conducted the pur-
suit and harrying of the wretched Yomud
Turcomans after khiva, so vividly de-
scribed by his friend and admirer, the Amer
lean correspondent MacGahan; and it was
Skobeleff who, after the storming of Geek
Tepe, and the rout of its brave Tekke de-
tenders, gave twenty-four hours complete
liberty to his excited soldiers to work their
wicked will on the persons and property
of the defenseless families of the dis
persed Turcomans. Skobeleff thoroughly
understood his men, and re-estah.ished his
control as deliberately as he permitted un-
bridled license. For exactly twenty-fours
the captors OF Geek Tepe were uncontrolled;
within six hours of the termination of that
period two soldiers were shot for triding
crimes. This circumstance, coupled with
the fact of Skobeleffs great popularity in
the army, gives striking indication of the
character OF the Russian soldier, as judged
by the man who knew him best-Black-
lUOOds Mn11zine
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The Turkish Lent.

Like the Catholics and the Greeks, the
Turks have their Lent, which lasts forty
days, and which they observe in all its
rigor during that celebrated month known
under the name OF Ramazdn.
The Turkish Lent is much more severe
than that observed in Europe and the God
of Stamboul is not so lenient as that of
Rome He permits the eating of neither
eggs nor fish He does not, in fact, permit
the eating of anything; for Mussulmans
are forbidden to eat and drink anything
whatever from the rising until the setting
of the sun, and that for twenty eight con-
secutive davs. 1t is forbidden even to
smoke, to take snuff, to eat lozenges, to use
perfumery, until report of a cannon,
! which is fired i'll the principal quarters at
! twilight, raises this tyrannical Introduction
to re- establish it at the first CLEANS OF
dawn. The nights of RamazaR are spent
in feasting and smoking Called tta,),
which atone somewhat for the austerities
of the day.
As the Turks reckon time according to
the lunar year, the months do not follow
exactly the order of the seasons; and when
Lent comes in winter, it is extremely toler-
able, for the days consecrated to abstinence
are short, and the nights devoted to feasting
are long. But if Ramazan comes in mid.
summer, IL is not at all convenient, and
hunger as well as thirst makes protests
that Mussulmanic piety does not always
succeed in silencing.
Fortunately the Turk is a sleeper, and
while he is asleep the Koran does not for
bid him to dream that he is feasting But
the most pressing want of the Osmanli
when he breaks his fast, is not to eat, but
to smoke his chibouk. A domestic, atten.
tive to the blessed signal, stands behind
him with his pipe filled and lit, and hardly
has the cannon flashed when the master
without awaiting thesreport, takes his frs
! Whit. tt Cosmopolitan.
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A Queer Coin.

There is counterfeit ten-cent piece
with history" said Jackson street man
yesterday, as he fondled greasy looking
coin dangling from his watch chain
when the Federal troops were before
Fredericksburg New York volunteer got
out of his trench one morning, and, after
attracting the attention of Johnny who
could be seen inside the fortification, raised
glass of whisky to his lips, which were
puckered for long pull.
The volunteer had taken. perhaps, three
swallows of the liquor when he sa a puff
of smoke and flash from the Notifications,
followed second later by the collapse OF
the whisky flask and the fall of the volun-
teer. The bottle which had been struck
by mimic ball. was shivered and the man
who had held it lay bleeding at our feet
His upper jaw had been shattered by the
bullet, which had also taken away seven of
his front teeth and buried itself high up in
his right cheek. 1t was one of the rrettiest
shots | saw during the whole war, and the
volunteer, although seriously wounded.
seemed to think it about the finest piece of
work it had ever been his pleasure to wit
ness.
The bullet was cut out by surgeon,
and as soon as the patient recovered from
the shock which he experienced we melted
the piece of lead and cast four of these
dimes. The volunteer kept one another
went to his brother. the surgeon kept the
third, and | was so fortunate as TO become
the possessor of the other So you see this
little piece of rebel lead broke whisky
bottle and human jaw, knocked out seven
teeth and travelled over six hundred yards
to bathe itself in liquor and gore. Six
months after this incident we learned that
the bullet was fired by cross-eyed man in
a South Carolina regiment Chicago Her
MI
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WHOLE NO. 1921.

early this morning on Butte Creek noun
tain, near Balls, standing in a patch of
snow with the boot off one foot and with
no bat. He was yelling londly, being in
sane. He came from Bonanza, Or, where
his father keeps hotel, travelling all night
on the desert. He has one foot FROST
bitten.
Bad Place for Fire.
OAKLAND. April 15,h.-[By Postal Tele-
graph Line. AT 7:3O this evening a fire
was discovered in the coal bins adjoining
the rolling mills of the Judson Powder
Manufacturing Company, ST Emeryyille
Station. The fire communicated to the
rolling mills through an elevator, and dam
aged them to the extent of $1,000 fully
covered by insurance. The fire has been
extinguished.
The Chinese Influx.
SAN Francisco, April 15th.-Seventeen
wrlts OF habeas corpus were sued out of
Court yesterday by Chinese on the CITY of
Peking, and the forty-three sued out
Wednesday make sixty in two days.
Six Chinese were allowed by Judge Hoff-
man to land yesterday on writs of habeas
corpus, one on certificate and five on
prior residence.
Promising Outlook.
SAN Francisco, April 15th.-[Special.l !
On tomorrow the spring meeting OF the
Blood Horse Association will be inaugu-
rated. Everything points to rare sport
The weather is beautiful and the track in
excellent condition. While il is regretted
that Baldwin does not participate, still
there is such a formidable array of thor
oughbreds that success is certain.
Chinaman Shot.
ANDERSON, April 15th.-Wah Lee Wash,
Chinaman, was shot by some unknown
person near his house last night The bull
let entered the corner of his mouth, rang
ing downward. The doctor cannot get il
out. The Chinaman is still alive
Held for Msnslaugbter.
NAPA, April 1Sth.-F. Wagner has been
held to answer before the Superior Court
for manslaughter, in causing the death of
Elijah Walters during prize fight few
days ago. Bail is fixed at $1,000.
A Narrow Escape.
VIsALIA, April 15th-Lizzie Courtney. a
colored girl, was accidentally shot in the
leg to-day with 4 shotgun by Pinkney Bel
ton. The flesh above the knee is badly
t I'm.
The Colt Did the breaking.
PErALUMA, april 15th-Willle Dickson
had a shoulder disloeated while breaking a
| colt. He lives ON the Sonoma Mountain.
east of this citV
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Japanese Wood Enpravinrs.

The famous woodcut of St Christopher
was certainly anticipated full hundred
years by authentic examples of japanese
typography, fac simile reproductions of
which are given by Mr.. Anderson at pages
lis ct seq. 1t is not, however, till the COM
mencement of the seventeenth century
that any lay application of engraving can
be traced. In fact so far as we know st
present, the Oldest illustrated book is an
edition of the famous classic. the g Ise Mo
nogatari, published in zoos, but this and the
volumes which followed it were coarse.
and scarcely equal to the contemporary
woodcuts of the Chinese 1t was not until
Moronobu appeared on the scene that the
real talents of the japanese engraver were
exhibited. Chromo-xylography effected
by a series of blocks printed in succession.
was comparatively late and, like the sim
pier art, it was derived from China As
in the latter case it quickly attained per-
fection which the inventors have never ar
preached. The first essays in color print
ing appear to have been introduced about
1895. The designers and engravers both
gained rapidly in experience and prof.
cheney, and although the best examples of
work claimed no higher motives than the
atrical portraits and fancy representations
of ladies of suspicious popularity and
gorgeous raiment, they offer something
that has never been equaled in the same
branch of art in Western countries. Our
present knowledge of Japanese wood en-
cravings supplies new and very import
ant chapter in the history of the art and
one from which the amateur may derive
keen pleasure and the practical engrayer a
little measure of profit-The Quarterly Re
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Beauty Well Bauasted.

The modern woman is well ballastei. If
she had the wings that go with the celes-
tial qualities the romancers ascribe to her
they had need be of good size and stoutly
feathered to lift her and her paraphernalia
above the ground. The writer tried the
scales upon her hat and wrap last week
The little jet and lace affair that fits so
iauntly over her shoulders and looks as
airy and light as the spring morning itself
is no such gessamer. II neeti weigh next
to nothing, but it can and does run high as
thirty pounds. Ten pounds is good aver
age weight for glitter and tinkle enough to
make panopiy of sparkling sun points of
their owner as she walks the street looking
like dewdrop and feeling like lump of
lead.
The long and dignified raglan that COW
ers the figure from top to toe has possibili-
ties in the way of beads that are not granted
it for nothing, and it improves them 10 the
full. Forty pounds it is said to weigh !;
there are fairy tales of fifty, but the writer
speaks only whereof she knows The bon
net hardly knows the meaning of avoirdu-
pois till it makes the acquaintance of that
black king jet, but then it weighs down the
scales in right lordly fashion. Four pounds
is little enough for a glittering beaded
crown, and there are heads that submit to
eight and nine without murmur for the
sake of such a regal diadem. Forty-five
pounds has jetted gown been known to
weigh; plus thirty for the wrap and five for
the bonnet, the sum is nice little total of
eighty pounds for the proverbially delicate
American woman to carry about with her
on her promenades.-Neso York Nail and
Express.
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E. Howe, of the Womens Bank fame, has
absconded with $4,000 of the depositors
money.
A gang of Knights of Labor demolished
the material of the OiOi a Troy, n. Y,
paper, and severely beat the foreman OF
the Office.
The jail officials at Fairfield, Solano
county, have been acquitted of all blame
for the suicide of Michael Keefe, the con-
demned murderer.
S. r. Jones, Assistant Passenger Agent of
the Union Pacific Railroad, has been
offered the Secretaryship of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Aquarantine against smallpox has been
placed on sll trains arriving at Nogales,
A. T, from Mexico. There is no SMALL -pox
at present in any part of Mexico, but there
are few cases at Nogales.
At meeting of the State Normal School
Trustees at san Jose it was understood that
free water for school use and irrigating the
grounds is expected for the Chico Normal
School. Apparatus and charts to the
amount of $500 was ordered to be pur-
chased.
The runor that the body of Pete Olsen
had been found in a well on Lyons place.
near Napa, and that Lyon himself had
been arrested, proves to have been un-
founded. The officers are confident they
are on the right track and will yet succeed
in capturing the brutal Swede.
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WATER>G IN GERMANY.-Dr. Fischer,
the well-known German chemist, has re-
Gently been making series of tests to show
that the ordinary domestic stoves seldom
utilize more than 20 per cent. of the heat
evolved by given quantity of solid fuel
used, whereas over so per cent. of the heat
evolved by gaseous fuel can be utilized for
warming purposes. At the Elsdorf sugar
refineries no steam engines have been used
for some years past. Water-gas is manu-
factured at cost of some 20 cents per 1000
feet, and is used for driving gasengines at
the Schultze Iron Works at Essen. Water
gas is made at an average cost of u Gems
1000 feet, and serves for fuel and Lighting
As the gas itself is non-illuminating, an
ingenious method has been devised of in
Producing small points of magnesia into the
ring of the Bunsen burners in such way
that these points become incandescent, and
furnish an excellent and very steady light
The use of these magnesia pencils is in
creasing considerably in Germany, and in
candescent gas lamps made on this princi-
pie have become q regular article of trade.
Engineering aud Mining Journal.
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Sir Trevelyan Casts u Bombshen Into
the Tory Camp.

Record UnioR's Special CdbtegrdH2-C copyrighted
byhte NeIc York Tribune.
New YORK, April l6,h-A. M.-Sir George
Trevelyan's letter attacking the coercion
bill is the tall, OF the hour. Considering
his anlecedants in the Government OF Ire
land, his action with regard to Gladstone's
bill, and the terms in which the document
is couched, it is the most damaging con-
demnation of the Tory policy that has Yet
appeared. He brings out, in an emphatic
way, the fact that this bill is frankly aimed
at the suppression of political opinion,
whereas all previous coercion bills pre-
tended to be aimed only at the suppress
sion of crime. He explains the attempts
made by leading Orangemen who are now
members of the Irish Government to
suppress the meetings of NationBlists in
Ulster BY means of armed mobs o. Orange
men, and declares in sentence, the con-
Guiding words of which will become his
toric: "These men, Colonel King Harmon,
the new Parliamentary Under Secretary,
and the AttorneyGeneral for Ireland, are
not the proper men TO be counsellors OF
the Lord Lieutenant, and to have them
selves lDaL tSlelIl VI pO"Ct ONCA thC iiO-
critics of their countrymen which far ex-
ceeds anything that can be imagined or be-
Iieved by those who have not been behind
the scenes of the Irish administration"
1t is my belief that the effect of this
letter upon English opinion will be second
only to that produced by the conversion of
Lord Spencer.
Satisfactory as this is it is at this time
difficult to repress certain cynical feeling at
the hypocrisy of some of those political in
cursions of our former rulers. The point
of Trevelyan's. hostility to the present CO.
ercion bill, according to hts own statement,
is that it is leveled at politicians, press
writers and press-workers, and not at Grim
inals. 1t is nearly two years since Tre-
velyan, at Harwick. declared that the arti
cles in United Ireland were as much por-
ton of the apparatus of murder as the
sword cane and dagger. 1t was also during
his administration of the previous Coercion
Act that United Ireland was seized and its
editor prosecuted for the article condemning
series of judicial murders that had
been committed in Green street. 1t was
during bis Chief Secretaryship that the pro-
prietor of the Ffeemdn's Journal, Gray, was
sent to Jail for venturing to criticize the
action of a drunken jury.
T. p. GILL, NJ. P.
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AN INSANE FREAK.
Thomas Turner Shoots a Neiehbcr, and
Then Commits Suicide.

Then Commits Suicide.
CALIsroGA, April 10Th. - The worst
tragedy reported from this vicinity in many
years was to-day enacted three miles west
of town. Thomas Turner, native of Eng
land, aged AZ years, and a man of family,
went to the house of his neighbor, J. w.
Roberts (brother to the well-known George
d. Roberts, of New York;, and with but
little warning shot him through the arm
and then through the body, the ball (from
a 44-caliber revolver) ranging downward,
and being afterwards removed by DR..
Gardner from near the spine. After the
shooting, Turner fastened down the hill
side from the house few yards to road,
briefly telling some workmen there of the
deed. He passed down the road short
distance, and then at the roadside shot
himself in the mouth, the ball coming out
at the top of his head. Turner was a
quiet, unassuming man, bearing a good
reputation. Mr.. Roberts is man of family
highly-respected citizen, and has many
friends here. He lies in a very critical
condition.
Turner's act undoubtedly resulted from
temporary insanity, caused by brooding
over land matters, in which he surmised
that Roberts was working against him and
i'll the interest of D. II. Jackson, of San
Francisco. with whom Turner had bar
gained to sell his farm; but, on account of
delay, as he had concluded not to let the
property GO a lawsuit was threatened by
Jackson's attorney. Much excitement over
the matter prevails here.